This is an extracted list from Searching For
A Gem of recordings from 1962 onwards where Bob has appeared
as a backing musician on other artists' official releases. For recordings where
he's made a more prominent contribution, see
Duets with Bob.

Revised:
10 February, 2018.

Harry Belafonte - "The Midnight Special",
RCA (USA/UK), 1962:

R-0001Midnight Special
(Huddie Ledbetter "Lead Belly")
- Bob plays harmonica for Harry Belafonte on the title track of his 1962 US RCA
albumThe Midnight Special (stereo version). The track has
also appeared on many Harry Belafonte compilation albums from 1972 to 2002. The mono version of this track is listed
separately as R-0001M, and occurs only in 1962 on the mono LP and a 1964 West German 7" single.

R-0486Midnight Special
(Huddie Ledbetter "Lead Belly")
- a previously unreleased alternate take
from the same sessions as R-0001, released on the BMG Germany compilation May Your Song Always Be Sung
Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, 2001

R-0458 Paths Of Victory - Bob is rumoured to sing backup vocals on
this cover version by The Broadside Singers from the 1964 Folkways album Broadside
Ballads Vol. 3: The Broadside Singers, now also available on The Best Of Broadside 1962-1988,
Smithsonian Folkways Records, 2000

Tom Rush - "Take A Little Walk With Me" - Elektra
(USA), 1966:Bob was rumoured to be the "Roosevelt Gook" playing piano, although
it now seems most likely it was Al Kooper getting a second musician's fee!

R-0056You Can't Tell A
Book By Its Cover (Willie Dixon)
R-0057Who Do You Love?
(Elias McDaniels - "Bo Diddley")R-0058Love's Made A
Fool Of You (Buddy Holly- Wes Montgomery)R-0059Too Much Monkey
Business (Chuck Berry)R-0060Money Honey (Jesse Stone)R-0061On The Road
Again (Tom Rush - not a cover of the Dylan song)

R-0158Jimmy Berman Rag
(Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan) - Bob contributes vocals and plays
guitar, piano and organ, recorded New York, Nov 1971, first released on Disconnected - The Dial-A-Poem Poets
Double, Giorno Poetry Systems (USA), 1974, also on the 1982 Allen Ginsberg
US album First Blues, John Hammond Records (see below)

Various Artists - "Sing Out!" magazine (USA),
1972:

R-0225September On
Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan) - recorded Nov 1971, Bob plays
piano, organ, acoustic and electric guitars on this track, a 1:17 excerpt of which originally
appeared on a flexi disc given away with "Sing Out!" magazine in 1972

R-0224A Dream
(William Blake/Allen Ginsberg) - recorded Nov 1971, Bob plays guitar and
contributes vocals to this poem by William Blake set to musicR-0235September On
Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg-Bob Dylan) - recorded Nov 1971, Bob plays
piano, organ, acoustic and electric guitars on 10:34 take (for 1:17 excerpt
R-0225, see
above)R-0226Airplane Blues (Allen
Ginsberg) -
recorded Jan 1982, Bob plays bass for Allen Ginsberg (the 2016 booklet notes to
The Last Word On "First Blues" say that this take is without Bob, even
though the 1994 booklet notes say it is)

There are two versions of
Nurse's Song (William Blake/Allen Ginsberg) on CD3
- Nurse's Song (Experience) (track 9, 2:07) and
Nurse's Song (Innocence) (track 21, 7:12).
Nurse's Song was one of the songs recorded at the
sessions in Nov 1971, but neither of these versions include Bob.

R-0111Election Year
Rag (Steve Goodman) - an out-take from the
1973 Somebody Else's
Troubles album released as a single, Bob plays piano and provides harmony vocals for Steve
Goodman on this track on the Buddah compilation The Essential Steve Goodman, 1976

R-0163Go Away Little
Boy - Bob plays rhythm guitar and probably harmonica on
Lone Justice's version of one of his unreleased compositions (an out-take from Empire Burlesque): this track was only originally available as a bonus track on
the B-side of the European 12" version of their 1985 Geffen single Sweet Sweet Baby (I'm
Falling), but was
released on CD in 1999 in a remixed version (R-0274) on The World Is Not My Home: The Best
Of Lone Justice, Geffen (USA) and in 2003 on The Best Of Lone Justice: The Millennium
Collection, Geffen (USA).

R-0218 Trust Yourself - Bob contributes
backing vocals to Carlene Carter's cover which first appeared on a Giant Records
West German CD
single Sweet Meant To Be distributed with the album Little Love
Letters in 1993

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "In The Hot Seat",
Victory (UK), 2000:

R-0460 Man In The Long Black Coat - Bob is rumoured to play guitar and
supply
vocals on this version by Emerson, Lake & Palmer from their 1994 Victory
album In The Hot Seat
(re-released by Polygram International, 2000)

I suspect this is a mistake, and
he doesn't appear.

Stevie Nicks - "Street Angel", Modern
Records (USA/UK), 1994:

R-0228 Just Like A Woman - Bob plays guitar
and harmonica on Stevie Nicks' cover from her album Street Angel, Modern
Records, 1994

Gerry Goffin - "Back Room Blood"
- Genes (USA), 1996:

R-0248Tragedy Of The
Trade (Bob Dylan/Gerry Goffin/Barry Goldberg) -
Bob provides vocals and guitar to this co-compositionR-0249Time To End This
Masquerade (Bob Dylan/Gerry Goffin) - Bob
provides vocals and guitar to this co-composition

Gary "Mudbone" Cooper - "Fresh Mud" - Influx
Music (UK), Oct 2006:

R-0740Home
(Dave Stewart/Gary "Mudbone" Cooper/Bob Dylan) - Bob plays piano on this track from
Jan 2002 previously made available on the Internet by Dave Stewart as part of a
project called Electroblues Volume One.

The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Live [Various Artists] - Time-Life
9DVD set (USA), 2009

Both performances recorded at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame,
Grand Ballroom, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, 20 Jan 1988. Both were included
on The
Best Of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame + Museum Live - Time-Life
Music (USA), Nov 2011

R-0899 One Too Many
Mornings - Johnny Cash with the Avett Brothers with Bob on background vocals based on the
out-take from the
Nashville Skyline sessions with Bob and Johnny, Columbia Studios,
Nashville, TN, 18 Feb 1969, previously released in the 1969 film and video
Johnny Cash: The Man =
His World =
His Music

R-1913 It Takes A Lot To
Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - recorded live with the Wynton Marsalis Septet
at the Apollo Theater, New York City, New York, 7 Jun
2004 as part of
Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2004 Spring Gala